Re: Problems with open source ati driver

2012-08-05 Thread Adrian Fita
On 05/08/12 18:39, John Kapnogiannis wrote: > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 1:36 PM, John Kapnogiannis wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Adrian Fita wrote: >>> On 05/08/12 11:59, John Kapnogiannis wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> My problem on all this is that after a while my laptop starts to gain

Re: Problems with open source ati driver

2012-08-05 Thread Adrian Fita
On 05/08/12 15:42, Petr Voralek wrote: >Hello! > >On 08/05/2012 12:10 PM, *Adrian Fita* wrote, and I quote (in part): > >> The best solution that I found was to downgrade to xorg 1.11 and hold >> the packages from upgrading so I can use the fglrx driver. Some >> instructions on how to do

Re: Problems with open source ati driver

2012-08-05 Thread John Kapnogiannis
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Adrian Fita wrote: > On 05/08/12 11:59, John Kapnogiannis wrote: > > [...] > >> My problem on all this is that after a while my laptop starts to gain >> high temperature leading to a complete cut of power. Suppose this is a >> failsafe method for it to avoid permane

Re: Problems with open source ati driver

2012-08-05 Thread Adrian Fita
On 05/08/12 11:59, John Kapnogiannis wrote: [...] > My problem on all this is that after a while my laptop starts to gain > high temperature leading to a complete cut of power. Suppose this is a > failsafe method for it to avoid permanent damage. I have searched but > I have found no solution. An

Re: Problems with open source ati driver

2012-08-05 Thread John Kapnogiannis
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 05/08/12 04:59 AM, John Kapnogiannis wrote: >> >> Hello. I own a dell studio 1555 laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD >> 4570 (RV710) gpu and I have problems configuring it. I recently found >> out that support has been dropped from fglrx an

Re: Problems with open source ati driver

2012-08-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/08/12 04:59 AM, John Kapnogiannis wrote: Hello. I own a dell studio 1555 laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 (RV710) gpu and I have problems configuring it. I recently found out that support has been dropped from fglrx and that the only solution for me is the open source radeon drive

Problems with open source ati driver

2012-08-05 Thread John Kapnogiannis
Hello. I own a dell studio 1555 laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 (RV710) gpu and I have problems configuring it. I recently found out that support has been dropped from fglrx and that the only solution for me is the open source radeon driver. Here's my story: I edited the xorg.conf file